The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 51
For a few days all went well; there was plenty of game in the forest, and even the wolf had as much to eat as he could wish.
Who acts: plenty, wolf · What happens: go, be, have, eat, wish · To what, where: much
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 11 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plenty | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 game | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 wolf | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wolf | det |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 much | acl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 wish | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wish | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 wish | aux |
| 30 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 eat | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | day | all, well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | plenty of game in the forest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the wolf | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wish | could | wolf | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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